So I have a short stack of Austria-related books accompanying us on sabbatical, and one I just finished is Maria von Trapp's memoir from 1949, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. I really enjoyed it; the story of The Sound of Music is within the first hundred of the 312 pages (and was remarkably close to the real story, I was surprised), and the rest includes the family's saga as refugees in America, touring as a singing family, and finding and building their home (and more!) in Stowe, Vermont.Today, with the story on my mind and all the holiday spirit in the air, I had a hankering to watch the movie. What to do when TV in Austria, in which the story is set, doesn't have it playing every other day during the Christmas season as in the US? In fact, I'm not sure they ever play it - you're pretty hard pressed to find an Austrian or German who has actually seen the movie (or the play/musical) unless they have lived in the US for several years. Anyway - what to do! YouTube to the rescue, of course.
And while browsing, I found this pretty darn awesome video from Korea:
And browsing further, I include this flash mob video for my tap friends. :-)
(For more on flash mobs: wikipedia, and watch your heart out on youtube - I love the dance ones)
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